Sometimes, memories are like feathers that can fly into our cerebral labyrinths, taking a ship for sail, crossing neural networks like the flow of ethereal butterflies. In other situations, our remembrances are settled down like deep roots of strong trees.This book introduces also an experimental protocol, about conceptual neurons and how these nerve cells can identify emotional insights when they discriminate an iconic sample (a famous human image, well spread all over the world).Finally, analyzing the Working Memory Paradigm, this text describes new neuronal networks participating in neuronal processing like mental representations in predictive tasks associated to prefrontal cortex.

En la escala filogenética, solo existe una especie que puede pronunciar palabras, frases y comunicarse constantemente con el habla. Por tanto, el culmen evolutivo de las especies, en toda la historia del planeta en que vivimos recae en la especie humana.Con tales ventajas, los humanos, leen, escriben y hasta aprenden idiomas.Sin embargo, los primates no humanos, son capaces de comunicarse por signos con otras especies. Los científicos han demostrado que un mono de 30 meses de edad, puede tener un vocabulario superior al de los bebés humanos.

¿Y como hacemos para olvidar esas emociones que no quisieramos recordar nunca? El Cerebro parace guardar emociones por años, o por toda la vida, en cajones ocultos de un gran armario, aseguradod por claves neuronales y códigos moleculares llevados a cabo por proteínas especializadas. De esta forma olvidamos, pero también todas las memorias afectivas, estan moduladas por hormonas, como la oxitocina, los estrogenos, la progesterona, que se encuentran presentes tanto en hombres, como en mujeres.

El presente texto constituye el cuerpo principal del trabajo fin de Máster de Carmen Baena González, presentado en la Universidad de Salamanca. Se presenta una revisión exhaustiva de los tratamientos más actuales utilizados en la enfermedad de Alzheimer.

This is the second time that I have had the honor of opening an interna tional symposium dedicated to the functions of the hippocampus here in Pecs. It was a pleasure to greet the participants in the hope that their valuable contributions will make this meeting a tradition in this town. As one of the hosts of the symposium, I had the sorrowful duty to remind you of the absence of a dear colleague, Professor Graham God dard. His tragic and untimely death represents the irreparable loss of both a friend and an excellent researcher. This symposium is dedicated to his memory. If I compare the topics of the lectures of this symposium with those of the previous one, a striking difference becomes apparent. A dominating tendency of the previous symposium was to attempt to define hippocam pal function or to offer data relevant to supporting or rejecting existing theoretical positions. No such tendency is reflected in the titles of the present symposium, in which most of the contributions deal with hip pocampal phenomena at the most elementary level. Electrical, biochemi cal, biophysical, and pharmacological events at the synaptic, membrane, or intracellular level are analyzed without raising the question of what kind of integral functions these elementary phenomena are a part of.

International collaboration has become increasingly important in carrying out research activities. This book, written by a large group of scholars from Europe and Latin America, maps, analyses and discusses research collaboration between the two continents during the last twenty years. The empirical material underlines the richness and the variety of the links that bind the two continents, well beyond the simplified views of science, either as the brainchild of global networking or as a result of dependence. The book also develops an innovative methodological approach, combining bibliometric analysis, social surveying, in-depth interviews, and a careful analysis of research programmes and policies. While arguing that the asymmetry of relations that once existed in cooperation has turned into a more equal partnership between the two continents, it deciphers some of the reasons behind this more balanced cooperation. It also challenges the view of science as a global self-organising system through collective action at the level of researchers themselves. On the contrary, the importance of policy, institutions, and previously developed research is highlighted and recognised

The text is enriched throughout by close attention to functional aspects of the anatomical observations."--Jacket.